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Syrix, Carrier of the Flame
Legendary Creature — Phoenix · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
Flying, haste
At the beginning of each end step, if a creature card left your graveyard this turn, target Phoenix you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Whenever another Phoenix you control dies, you may cast this card from your graveyard.
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What Syrix, Carrier of the Flame actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of each end step, if a creature card left your graveyard this turn, target Phoenix you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.
- Triggered ability · deathWhenever another Phoenix you control dies, you may cast this card from your graveyard.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Syrix, Carrier of the Flame deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 28× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Syrix, Carrier of the Flame
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Phoenix Chick1 mana
- Bloodfeather Phoenix2 mana
- Chandra's Phoenix3 mana
- Detective's Phoenix3 mana
- Flamewake Phoenix3 mana
- Lightning Phoenix3 mana
- Lamplight Phoenix3 mana
- Phoenix of Ash3 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Phyrexian Tower0 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
- Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
- Scavenger's Talent1 mana
- Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
- Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
- Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs3 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Do or Die2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Innocent Blood1 mana
- Breaking Point3 mana
- Coils of the Medusa2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Lively Dirge2 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Kederekt Parasite1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana